Change the icons ofDrives

Change the icons of Drives

Change the icons of Drives

All the Xp users would have

been bored by the boring

icons in their My Computer

panel which are adjacent to

the Hard disk drives(C:,D: or

whatever drive letter you

have). Here is a simple

tweak by which you will be

able to change this

monotonous icon to

anything you like,even your

own Picture if you wish

You can put any image in

place of one which I have

shown,even the picture of

your favourite celebrity or

your dream caror your

own Picture. Here are the

steps you need to follow:

1.First of all the picture you

want to use should

have .ico extension(if you

already have a pic with .ico

extension proceed to step 2)

.Most of the pictures we

normally use have

extensions

like .jpg,.bmp,.png..gif etc,

so you first need to convert

them to one with .ico

extension.This is simple.Just

go here and put your

original image in the

‘Source Image ’section,then

click on ‘Generate

Favicon.ico ‘ button to get

your image with .ico

extension. 2.Now go to My

Computer.Suppose you

want to put this icon in

place of your original C:

image. Double click and

enter C: .Paste your .ico

image file in it.Also create a

new text file and in it type

the following lines:

[autorun] ICON=favicon.ico

Remember that ‘favicon.ico’

in the second line is the

name of your image file.If

you have an image file

with .ico extension by the

name of ‘abc.ico’,then use

that in the second line in

place of ‘favicon.ico’. 3.Now

rename this text file as ‘

autorun.inf ‘ (without the

quotes). Important

Note:How do I rename my

text file as autorun.inf ?

Ans.Go to Tools->Folder

options.Under the View tab

uncheck the ‘Hide

extensions for known file

types’.Press apply.Now

rename your text file as

‘autorun.inf’. 4.Now restart

your Pc.You are

done.Check out the cool

new picture you have just

added in your My

computer panel